Premier League: Liverpool toys with Southampton in newest attacking clinic
Diogo Jota celebrated his early objective by sitting on the Anfield turf, crossing his legs and pretending to play on a gaming console.
Liverpool merely toyed with Southampton within the English Premier League on Saturday.
In one other masterful show by the very best assault within the league, Liverpool swept to a 4-0 win. It has scored a minimum of two targets in its final 17 video games in all competitions.
Needless to say, Jürgen Klopp’s ruthless workforce is comfortably the highest scorer within the Premier League with 39 — no different facet is inside eight — and the newest victory pulled Liverpool to inside some extent of chief Chelsea, which doesn’t play till Sunday in opposition to Manchester United.
Jota led Liverpool with two targets — the primary coming inside two minutes, together with his celebration maybe a nod to his off-field penchant for gaming. Indeed, he gained a FIFA 20 match performed by Premier League gamers whereas soccer was suspended final yr following the coronavirus outbreak.
Thiago Alcantara’s deflected strike and Virgil van Dijk’s volley accomplished the scoring in opposition to a Southampton workforce whose daring strategy of deploying three strikers at Anfield backfired in spectacular vogue.
Liverpool was 3-0 forward after 37 minutes and will simply have doubled its remaining targets tally.
Before Liverpool’s match with Southampton at present, Diogo Jota participated in a FIFA 22 International Qualifier. 😳
In Round 4, he needed to go away so he wasn’t late for the sport🏃♂️
Two targets and a win later, it appears like he made the appropriate choice… 😂 pic.twitter.com/GYhuLTtkGo
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) November 27, 2021
Liverpool’s front-foot type is one thing Eddie Howe is attempting to carry to Newcastle after taking on on the Saudi-controlled north-east membership, but it surely would possibly take a while.
A 2-0 loss at Arsenal prolonged Newcastle’s winless begin within the league to 13 video games and the last-placed workforce fell additional adrift on Saturday, with next-to-last Norwich drawing at residence to Wolverhampton 0-0.
Meanwhile, Liverpool nice Steven Gerrard’s begin to life as a Premier League supervisor couldn’t be going any higher.
Aston Villa has two straight wins underneath Gerrard, the newest 2-1 at Crystal Palace.
